In the bustling city of Binhai in 2025, business prodigy Shen Xiang sees his world turned upside down during an acquisition negotiation. His “Heavenly Eye” suddenly awakens: he can not only see the colors of human emotions, but also glimpse fragments of spirits’ memories. When he spots the resentful spirit of his opponent’s dead father in the man’s mind, he exposes a financial fraud scheme on the spot: “The numbers in your ledger are just like the knife wounds on your father’s body: there are seven of each.” From then on, the CEO of a startup embarks on a comeback, using business strategy to lay spirits to rest and his supernatural eye to dominate the business world.
The innocent, chatty paranormal streamer Tang Xiaomiao stumbles into his world. She livestreams with a peachwood sword, and turns out to be the last heir of a Taoist lineage that goes back a hundred years. The bronze compass she carries is not only a “human-shaped spirit detector,” but can also turn into a peachwood sword at crucial moments. Her absurdly blunt jokes break the tension: “Sis, your makeup’s all smudged and you’re still pretending to faint? That’s even more awkward than my fake crying on stream!” The two form a “business-and-spirits duo.” Together, they expose a plot involving ancient tomb artifacts at an auction, uncover the truth behind his father’s death in an abandoned tomb, and hunt for treasures around the world, taking on a hypocritical chamber of commerce president, a backstabbing green tea, and underworld bosses. They also come face-to-face with the mysterious Lingshu Society, an organization that controls time-based artifacts.
When Binhai is overrun by a “parade of a hundred ghosts,” Shen Xiang stands atop a skyscraper and directs the purification of the resentful spirits with a business-style PowerPoint presentation: “Everyone, I’m here to announce the return on investment: laying you to rest will boost my company’s market value by ten percent!” In the final showdown, Tang Xiaomiao’s “chatterbox spirit-speech spell” makes the time artifact crash on the spot, while Shen Xiang overturns the rules of the supernatural world with his claim that “time is leverage that can be financed.”
